D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity

While the dehumanizing effects of technology, modernity, and industrialization have been widely recognized in D. H. Lawrence's works, no book-length study has been dedicated to these subjects.

This collection of newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars fills a genuine void and investigates Lawrence's peculiar relationship with modern technology and modernity in its many and varied aspects. Addressing themes such as mining, war technology, pastoralism vs. urbanism, ecocriticism, film, consumerism, aesthetics of technology, and many others, these essays help to reevaluate Lawrence's complicated standing within modernist literary tradition and reveal the true theoretical wealth of a writer whose whole life and work, according to T.S. Eliot, “was an assertion of what the modern world has lost.”